That just sounds like your firewalls are made of pentium pros and duct tape. TCP can oversaturate a connection too, and a firewall should be able to handle large packets at line rate.
Yeah the firewalls were ancient and already scheduled for an upgrade. This helped accelerate the schedule for sure. The company had about 800 employees doing all kinds of things, watching Netflix, watching videos on YouTube and Facebook, downloading whole ISO's, not to mention many business processes transferring files around, but the second one person started using this video downloader tool it brought everything to a crawl.
